Daniel Polatsch, MD
Hand Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1942316435
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.3%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Skeletal Dynamics Inc accounts for 61.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,437 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $263 in 2025.
Across 18 payments — averaging $502.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$6K
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$2K
- Acumed LLC$484
- Stryker$269
- Axogen$163
- Medartis Inc.$143
- plus $493 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00055%
- Travel & lodging$5486%
- Food & beverage$1,55217%
- Education$1,93921%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $5,548 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 2 | $1,939 |
| Acumed LLC | 5 | $484 |
| Stryker | 2 | $269 |
| Axogen | 1 | $163 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $140 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $117 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Geminus$5,548
- Align$5,548
- IJS$5,548
- Implate$5,548
- ACUMED$291
- VARIAX$269
- Acu-Sinch Repair System$150
- APTUS$143
- Anthem$140
- AMNIOEXCEL$136
- TCC-EZ$136
- OMNIGRAFT$136
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$136
- PRIMATRIX$136
- FREEDOM WRIST$117
How this compares
$9,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 178 hand surgery providers in New York.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 12 | $251 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in New York
- Nader PaksimaNew York$171K
- Michael HausmanNew York$128K
- Otis BarronNew York$122K
- Dan ZlotolowNew York$91K
- Daniel OseiNew York$51K
- Anthony SapienzaNew York$44K
- Duretti FufaNew York$43K
- Jaehon KimNew York$35K
- Omri AyalonNew York$29K
- Jacques HacquebordNew York$22K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.